ADP, a business sourcing and human capital management provider, has announced a new approach to tax, employment and payroll compliance with the release of ADP SmartCompliance, a cloud-based unified platform of outsourced services that helps medium and large companies better manage tax, employment and payroll compliance capabilities.

This outsourced platform of services can help save time and money by consolidating processes that are disparate and largely manual, and by working with an organization's existing enterprise resource planning (ERP), financial or human resources system of record.

ADP SmartCompliance helps organizations to streamline employment-related compliance activities by bringing together seven key compliance capabilities under a single, unified platform. The platform provides enhanced accessibility and visibility into compliance across the organization to assist with freeing up time and resources, allowing them to focus on growth and ROI.

The unified ADP SmartCompliance platform puts actionable data in the hands of CFOs, financial managers and human resources executives through comprehensive cross-service displays. These views provide a single, visual snapshot to quickly and easily assess the status of multiple business areas, including the seven capabilities offered through ADP SmartCompliance:

Employment tax: The platform simplifies payroll tax compliance by keeping up with regulatory changes and compliance rules across the more than 10,000 U.S. federal, state and local jurisdictions. Backed by ADP's team of tax, government relations and compliance specialists, ADP SmartCompliance manages nearly every aspect of tax filing and remittance to help minimize the risks associated with tax management.

Tax credits: By helping companies identify and claim all of the tax credits available to them, ADP SmartCompliance not only helps companies lower their effective tax rate, but reduces staff time spent searching and determining eligibility for potential tax credits.

Wage payments: ADP SmartCompliance offers flexible payment solutions that support 100 percent electronic pay (direct deposit, the ALINE Card by ADP pay card, check options and a mobile access point for employees). These payment solutions help companies increase electronic pay adoption, reduce the complexity of pay distribution and cut costs, all while increasing employee satisfaction with wage distribution.

Wage garnishments: ADP SmartCompliance helps manage the wage garnishment process for employers who are required by law to process employee pay garnishments, enabling companies to balance the risk, compliance, cost and efficiencies of garnishments processing.

Employment verification: With phone an d online verification options, ADP SmartCompliance eases the burden of employment verification and enables clients to respond automatically to requests for income and employment verification. Outsourcing employment verification through the platform helps ensure safer disclosure processes and faster response times for employees.

Unemployment claims: ADP SmartCompliance helps companies manage one of the few controllable business taxes by providing the resources, experience and expertise to quickly and easily verify claims for unemployment pay, helping companies reduce time and costs associated with this time-consuming process.

W2 management: Automated W2 distribution and management gives employers and employees more efficiency in annual income reporting.